Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Vetting Perspective Venue for my paper on Sanderson and Awe

  1. Venue Research and Reading Report
    "In preparation for submitting to Criterion magazine, I skimmed the following two articles : "Magnifying the Works of God," and "This Earth, Hot like Burning Coals."     Benzan, Sarah. "This Earth, Hot like Burning Coals." Criterion (2013): 2012. Provo: BYU Press. Print.  Lassetter, Katherine. "Magnifying the Works of God." Criterion (2013): 2012. Provo: BYU Press. Print. 
  2. Venue Title and Sponsoring Organization
    This is not a conference and there is no supporting organization (except, perhaps, BYU).  Here is the web page for their home page: Criterion Home Page.
  3. Call for Papers and Dates (for submission, and for event/publication)
    The link to the page: Due date for Paper. The date is April 25, 2014.
  4. Topic
    This magazine deals with literary analysis and criticism.  The articles I looked at both did a good job at mainly looking at one text and analyzing it.  They both however also looked at different texts by the same author.  My paper is, instead of focusing on one text, is focusing on one author, and how by analyzing his works the reader can better see how all of his works contribute to the sense of wonder and awe in the reader.
  5. Length
    The average length of an article was 14 pages, with the least number being 8 and the maximum being 18.  The requirements are 3,000 to 6,000 words.
  6. Formatting
    All papers must be submitted in MLA style.  Which as English majors we know is the best style; am I right?  There cannot be any images with the article; it's all just straight up words.
  7. Tone & Rhetorical Approach
    every paper has a professional tone, and neatly integrates text into the paper.  For example, here's part of the Works of God essay: "they are appeased God’s eyebrows or perhaps “serve they as a flow’ry verge to bind / the fluid skirts of that same wat’ry cloud” (11.881–82). Michael praises his efforts, but describes the abstract interpretation of the rainbow—it is “a cov’nant never to destroy / the Earth again by flood” (11.892–93). This “reading” of the symbol offers Adam insight" (Criterion 96).
  8. Social Media
    There are not any identifiable social media outlets from these articles.  There are no hashtags used to discuss this venue, for instance. There are also no links to Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, Google+ pages, Pinterest pages, etc.
  9. Mentions 
    Three of my Facebook friends, namely Whitney Mikell Sorensen, Brittany Strobelt, and Shane Peterson, like Criterion's Facebook page.  We are now 3 of 76.

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